Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Dies After Battle With COVID-19

A San Angelo, Texas man who helped organize an anti-mask rally has died after a publicized battle with COVID-19.

Caleb Wallace, 30, who helped organize the local "The Freedom Rally" in July, died after spending more than a month at a local hospital, his wife, Jessica, confirmed on a GoFundMe page to raise money for his medical expenses.

“Caleb has peacefully passed on. He will forever live in our hearts and minds,” Jessica Wallace wrote on Sunday (August 29).

On Friday (August 27), the San Angelo Standard-Times reported Wallace had been unconscious, ventilated and heavily sedated during treatment in the ICU at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since being admitted on August 8.

His pregnant wife shared a "heartbreaking update" on his condition Wednesday (August 25) via their shared Facebook account.

"He’s not doing good," Jessica Wallace wrote. "It’s not looking in our favor, his lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis. They called and said they’ve run out of options for him and asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments.

"My heart just can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him. Im sorry if I don’t respond to any calls or texts or messages, I am just broken up."

In July, Caleb Wallace reportedly helped organize 'The Freedom Rally' in San Angelo, which claimed it was protesting against the "government being in control of our lives."

The 30-year-old also founded 'The San Angelo Freedom Defenders,' a group that hosted another rally in 2020 in an effort to "end COVID tyranny."

In April, Wallace wrote a letter to the San Angelo Independent School District, which was shared by San Angelo Live, demanding that the district “rescind ALL COVID-related policies immediately" and falsely claimed that wearing masks led to harmful effects on children and that there was “little evidence that masks worked for anyone.”

Jessica Wallace told the Standard-Times that her husband initially felt symptoms on July 26 and refused to get tested or seek medical care, instead giving himself a cocktail of Vitamin C, zinc, aspirin and ivermectin -- an anti-parasitic drug that has been falsely claimed as an effective COVID-19 remedy -- before being taken to the hospital.